You'll sometimes hear from people that they actually do a better job of getting their work done when they have a lot of other obligations - in effect, it removes the possibility of procrastinating.

If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.

Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.

In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.

Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.

It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.

The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable.

Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point the oil will run out.

If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a vital part of them.

Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be.

Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk

I'm not sure you can count as history, was Keith Richards's "Life," which he so modestly titled it. I did find it a fascinating book. Keith's a pretty honest fellow.

To Brian Ellis, you owe my family and this community and apology for a disgusting and despicable smear campaign.

You're so full of it, darlin'.

Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

Who am I, and where am I going? You are the answer to this question. You are here to ask the question, and to be the answer.